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The last sentence of the article mentions it’ll be very difficult to measure, which is of course correct. Maybe they could devise a compassion scale, using a visual aid showing a group of uncaring nurses down at 1 and compassionate-looking nurses at 10.

Holy crap – good thing they don’t rate surgeons based on group empathy. The UK is notorious for useless stats in the healthcare group. When I did research on their 4 hour ER wait time mandate I couldn’t believe the number of useless numbers they come up with. It must cost a fortune just to create the measurements. If the empathy test had to be used in medicine what would the sensitivity/specificity be (to ID an unempathetic team)? 50/50?http://www.waittimes.blogspot.com